I managed to get some new yarns listed tonight! Four new single plys. Three are spun from wonderful merino wool/bamboo blend dyed by Cloudlover, and the other is Falkland from the Yarn Wench.

Here is a mosaic of the new skeins, all listed now in my etsy shop -


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Okay, so I know yesterday I sort of said I wouldn't ramble about things . . . but, I can't help it. Here goes some random thoughts I've had this week . . . (if you just want to see the yarn pics, scroll down :) )

Project Runway: since I don't want to spoil it for anyone, I will just say I am really happy with the outcome.

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So, after 3 "bad" shows in a row (by bad I mean, making only a little over the cost of going, though I still did make "something" at each one), I admit to not really looking forward to this past weekend when I was a vendor at the Fall Harvest/Wine Festival in Cedarburg.  I was secretly hoping this one would be good given the size and what I had ( Read more... )

So, it was definitely a weekend of spinning! Besides going out for a late lunch/early dinner on Saturday, I spent most of the weekend spinning. I already posted what I finished on Friday and Saturday, so here is what I did on Sunday. All of these pictures were taken before "setting the twist" . .

Tangled Up In Blue handspun yarn--this one was spun ( Read more... )

So, last night I spun for 6 hours! Woohoo!! I also spun today! Since I plan on spinning some more tomorrow, I wanted to post the pics of what I've got done so far!

First, I spun up the Spunky Club Fiber of the Month. This colorway was called "Celebration" and is Shetland wool. Here is a picture of the two skeins of single ply yarn I spun:

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Here are a few pictures of the bulky boucle yarn I spun up last week that sort-of matches the Luck of the Irish 2ply (one is 94 yards, the other 92 yards):


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So, here is the yarn i spun on tuesday night, it was from handdyed wool from the YarnWench, and she had called it "magically delicious". Since I'll be making a bulky weight boucle yarn to match this two-ply, I wanted to call this one something different, so here is "Luck of the Irish":


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so, i managed to take a break from knitting (i've got some things i'm trying to finish up for a show this weekend) and spun up two battman batts . . . they were lots of fun to spin up!


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